University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
15 Jul 2015 - 16 Jul 2015
The two day conference on Philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and their relevance for Africa, will take place on 15 July & 16 July at Cape Town.
The philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari unsettles – and raises a host of fundamental philosophical questions for – everything from aesthetics, politics and ethics to geography, biology and even mathematics. Given the highly transdisciplinary nature of this philosophy and its myriad possible applications, we welcome proposals for presentations on any subject, including, but by no means limited to those we have suggested here.
If you are interested in presenting on these or any other themes, please submit a 300-500 word abstract for blind review to deleuzeafrica@gmail.com, along with your affiliation (if any), your contact details and any access, dietary or other requirements you have.
The deadline for submission is the 1st of May 2015. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the 15th of May 2015. Proposals for the delivery of presentations through art, performance, poetry, multimedia or any other mode of creative expression are welcome.
SUGGESTED TOPICS
•Contemporary social movements
•Black consciousness, race, racism
•Feminism, becoming-woman and Woman’s Studies
•Queerness and queer theory
•Identity politics, identity and difference/heterogeneity
•Cultural identity, cosmopolitanism, globalisation
•Post-colonialism
•European theory in Africa
•Geopolitics, the environment, ecology
•Capitalism and the state
•Bio/necropolitics, cognitive capitalism and the societies of control
•Marxism, anarchism and other forms of radical politics
•The affective/material turn
•Socially just pedagogies
•Transdisciplinarity
•Educational assessment in Africa
•Social relations, practices and environments
•Cognitive and life sciences
•Technology and new media
•Ways of becoming
•Art and aesthetics
•Nomadic ethics
•Ontology, epistemology and metaphysics
•New materialism, speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy and non-standard philosophy
•Minor languages and minor writing
•Cinema
•Animal rights/liberation
